Professor Martha Davis’ new piece in the Brennan Center for Justice, “The Greening of State Constitutions,” focuses on how courts play an increasingly important role in enforcing states’ environmental rights amendments. “The difficulty of amending the federal Constitution and the current Supreme Court’s use of history to limit rights can leave it unable to speak to contemporary challenges like environmental crises. By expanding the justiciability of environmental rights, states’ Green Amendments are starting to fill that gap,” said Davis.
